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What does Chapter XLVIII in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, Book I, mean?
Machiavelli says that when Roman senators (almost exclusively patricians) saw that only plebeians were in the running for consular tribune, they maintained patrician monopoly on power in one of two ...
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Who are "the sons of Brutus" in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy?
It is a reference to the Tarquinian conspiracy. After the overthrow of Tarquinius, the last Roman King, and the founding of the Roman republic, a number of Romans, including two sons and two brothers-...
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Necessity or benefits of reading Livy before Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy?
Now that I've finished reading an annotated translation of the Discourses on Livy (translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2008), I can answer my own ...
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Why did Machiavelli specifically mention Livy's first ten books in the title of the Discorsi?
This might be a remnant for Machiavelli's original goal of writing a running commentary of the first ten books in Livy's A Urbe Condita.
Several other passages in the book may also be remnants of this ...
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